Lab Alumni

LAB ALUMNI (Very Impressive Student Accomplishments!)

Undergraduate and Graduate Research Students: Where Did They Go Post-Graduation?

Undergraduate Students

Michelle Yue ('23):  Wyss Institute, Harvard University

Min Guo ('23):  MS Biostatistics,  Harvard University

Avery Bradley ('23): NIH Post-Bac Program

Anne Roman ('23):  NIH Post-Bac program

Pinar Caglayan ('23): Post-Bac Program, Yale University

Bryan Weselman (’22): MD/Ph.D  Program; Georgetown University 

Jason (’22): Master’s Program at W&M

Elias Nafziger (’22):  Ph.D. Program, Bioengineering, Boston University

Taiana James (’22): Research position at W&M

Rithvik Nalamalapu (’22):  Virginia Commonwealth University, MD program

Matt Dennen (’22):NIH IRTA Program

Sanjana Challa (’21): University of Virginia, MD Program

Aaron Stone (’22):  Applying to medical schools

Sammy Murphy (’22):  Applying for positions in conservation

Elizabeth Li (’21):  NIH, Francis Collins’ Lab -> MD/Ph.D. Program at New York University 

Stephanie Do (’21): Ph.D. Program, Bioengineering, University of Southern California

Julia Urban (’21): Ph.D. Program, Bioengineering, Columbia University

Swathi Somitran (’21):  NIH IRTA Program

Kushali Patel (’21): Applying to medical schools

Xiangyi Fang (’21):  Ph.D. Program, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

Adam Oliver (’21):  Ph.D. Program, Bioengineering, Rice University

Grace Solini (’20): Ph.D. Program, California Institute of Technology

LeAnn Lo (’20): Data Scientist/Analyst – Industry

Nana Yaa Amoh (’19):   Ph.D. Program, Molecular-Cell-Devel., Harvard University

Sabrina Bracero (’19):  Ph.D. Program, Immunology,  Harvard University

Ethan Jones (’19):  Ph.D. Program, Systems & Synthetic Biology, Harvard University

Callan Monette (’19):  Ph.D. Program,  Bioengineering,  Stanford University

Regan Sindelar (’19): University of Virginia, MD Program

Mark Pownall (’18):  Ph.D. Program, Molecular, Cellular, Devel. Biol., Yale University

Chen Dong (’18):  Ph.D. Program, Genetics,   Washington University

Kalen Clifton (’18): Ph.D. Program, Bioengineering,   Johns Hopkins University

Charith Ratnayake (’18). MD Program,  University of Pittsburgh

Ronald Cutler (’18):  Master’s, U Texas, San Antonio->Ph.D program, Albert Einstein Coll. Medicine

John Marken ('17):  California Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Program

Morgan Sehdev ('17):  Harvard University, MD Program

Lauren Yi ('17):  University of Virginia, MD Program

Lyuba Bolkhovitinov ('17):  NIH, IRTA Program -> Harvard University, Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience 

Caroline Golino ('17):  Gap year, applying to MD programs

Janhavi Giribhattanavar ('17): Scribing

Andy Halleran ('16): California Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Program

Michael LeFew ('16):  W&M Data Science Program, MS

Eileen Ablondi ('16):  Harvard University, Ph.D Program

Monica Stanciauskas ('15):  University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. Program

Eri Anastas ('15):  Tufts University, MD/PhD program

Gladys Shaw ('15):  Virginia Commonwealth University, Ph.D. Program

Alden Adkins ('15):  University of VIrginia, MD program

Sam Clamons ('14):  California Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Program

Brian Rabe ('13):  Harvard University, Ph.D program

Lindsay Schleifer ('13):  Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School, MD program

Daniel Angeles ('13):  University of Virginia, MD program

Ashlea Morgan ('13):  Position at National Institutes of Health

Jessica Murray ('13):  City Year, Ph.D program

Molly McDonough ('12):  MD program, University of Cincinnati Medical School

Kendall Mayer (’12): Ph.D. program Chemistry, Indiana University

Will Dalkin (’12):  Virginia Tech Medical School, MD program

Arrykka Jackson (’12): Volunteer Work

Ankita Nagirimadugu (’12):  Post-bac program, Drexel University

Brittany Lewis (’11):  MSTP MD/Ph.D. program, Cornell Weill Medical School

Byron Smith (’11):  Ph.D. program, Michigan State University

Alex Chalphin (’11):  MD program, Thomas Jefferson Medical College

Maitreyi Nagarkar (’11): Outreach Co-ordinator, RiSE Program

Jillian Walton (’11):  Ph.D. program, Baylor University

Nina Olsen (’11): MD program, Virginia Commonwealth University

Lauren Miller (’10): MSTP MD/Ph.D. program,  Emory University

Gwen Kaeser (’10):  Ph.D. program, University of California at San Diego

Laura Odorizzi (’10):  MD program, Thomas Jefferson Medical College

Charlotte Ivey (’10): MD program, University of South Carolina

Mike Harper ('09): MSTP MD/Ph.D. program, University of Colorado

Rebecca Lowden ('09): Analyst, Natl Human Genome Res. Ins., NIH; Ph.D. program at   Washington University

Jennifer Dorand ('09): Physics major, Ph.D. program, Wake Forest

Chelsea Osborne ('09): JD degree, New York University

Daniel Teasley ('08): Ph.D. program, Washington University

Drew Hughes ('08): MSTP MD/Ph.D. program, Washington Univ.

Brittany Johnson ('08): Ph.D. program, University of Virginia

Kellyn CarrierFenster ('08): Acting career in New York City

Stephanie Byers (‘07): Research Associate, Vanderbilt Unviersity

Natasha Golub ('07): MSTP MD/Ph.D. program, U. of Rochester

Negin Daneshpayeh ('07): MD program, George Washington Univ.

Katherine Fisher ('06): Ph.D. program, California Inst. of Technology

Ryann Fame ('06): Ph.D. program in Mol.Cellular Biology, Harvard U

Kristen Malkus ('06): Ph.D. program in Neuroscience, U. of Penn.

Matt Wester ('06): Master's, School of Education, William and Mary

Sarah Hirsh ('05): Ph.D. program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Jessica Evans (‘05): Nursing MS program, VCU-MCV

Vijay Dondeti (‘04): Ph.D. program, U. of Pennsylvania

Cristin Welle (‘04): Ph.D. program in Neuroscience, U. of Penn.

Jason Molitoris (‘04): MD/Ph.D. (MSTP) Case Western Reserve U.

Rebecca McAteer (‘04): MD program, New York Medical College.

Briana Riemer (‘04): MD program, New York University

Beth Cox (‘04): MD program, Duke University School of Medicine

Katie Southwell (‘04): Dental School, VCU, MCV

Melissa Wright (‘03): MD/Ph.D. (MSTP) at the U. of Colorado

John Hsia (‘03): MD program, University of Virginia.

Melissa Game (‘02): MD program, Eastern Virginia Medical School.

Kara Friend (‘02): technical position

Sarah Kandrac (‘02): science sales rep.; dental school

Ricky Anderson (‘02): JD degree program

Kim Briggs (‘02): Ph.D. program, Molecular Medicine, Johns Hopkins

University School of Medicine

Dave Solomon (‘02): Research Associate at the Children's Hospital in

Cincinnati; MD/Ph.D. program at Georgetown University

Erika Gruber (‘01): Cornell University Veterinary school

Anthoney Lim (‘01): MD program, Cornell Univ. School of Medicine

Emily Dryden (‘00): MD program, Vanderbilt Univ. Medical School

Allison Jenkins (‘00): Ph.D. program, Johns Hopkins University

Laura Grattan (‘00): Ph.D. program at Duke University in

interdisciplinary studies and political thought.

Kristina Hoke (‘00): MD/Ph.D. program (MSTP), Cornell University

Alix Purdy ‘00): Ph.D. program, University of California at San Diego

Cecily Vanderspurt (‘00): Ph.D.program in Molecular and Cellular

Biology, Harvard University (NSF Fellowship)

Banu Kuppusami (‘99): Ph.D. Cell and Mol. Biol., Harvard University

Mike DeWitt ('99): MD program, Virginia Commonwealth University,

Candice Brown (‘98): Ph.D.  in Neuroscience, Duke University (NSF Fellowship)

Alice Kraemer (‘98): Ph.D. program, Duke University

Kenna Mills (‘98): Fulbright Award (Argentina), PhD program in

Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University (NSF Fellowship)

Laura Park ('98): MD program, Virginia Commonwealth University,

Greg Politzer (‘98): MD program, Virginia Commonwealth University,

Ben Schwartz (‘98): MD program, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.

Christina Tennyson (‘97): MD, Vanderbilt School of Medicine

Laura Green (‘97): MD program, Vanderbilt School of Medicine

Jennifer Daigle ('97): MD/Ph.D. program at Louisiana State University

School of Medicine.

Debbie Kruep ('97): MD program,  University of Virginia

John Cowden (‘97): Ph.D. program, Univ. of California at Berkeley

Nancy Huang (‘97): Ph.D. program, Molecular and Cellular Biology,

Harvard University (with NSF Graduate Fellowship)

Amy Gooch (‘96): Ph.D. Molecular and Cell. Biology, Duke University

Kristin Whitford (‘96): MD/Ph.D. program (MSTP), Johns Hopkins

Katherine Kottas (‘96): Dental School, University of Minnesota

Tina Tenenhaus ('96): Ph.D. program, Molecular and Cellular

Biology,Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Carolyn Feltes (‘95): MD/Ph.D. (MSTP),  Georgetown University

Dan Greenwald (‘95): MD program, Stanford University

Wayne Outten (‘95): Ph.D., Northwestern University.

Dara Lehigh (‘95): MD program, University of Virginia

Allison Abbott (‘95): Ph.D., program, Tufts University

Katherine Joubin (‘94): Ph.D. program, Columbia University

      Not known: Elizabeth Cochran (‘04): Jessica Bonzo; Norie Sadjadi

(‘00); Paul Saladino; Shannan Harding; Thomas Buss (‘97):

Graduate Students

 Sudip Paudel (PhD, 2022):   Wyss Institute, Harvard University

Lomax Boyd (MS, '09): Ph.D. program, Duke University

Jianguo Qian (PhD  co-advisor, ’08): Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellow->. Staff Scientist at Johns Hopkins University 

Mei Li (MA, ‘04): Research Associate, Harvard University

Kristina Gleason (MA, ‘04): MD program, University of Vermont.

Lisa August (MA, ‘03): Analyst position with federal government

Conor Sipe (MA, ‘03): Ph.D. program, University of Virginia

Krista Stimson (MA, ‘98): Ph.D. program, Emory University.

Drew Wesienberger, (Ph.D. in Applied Science, 1998): Director,

Detector Group, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

Laura Rochmis (MA,'95): MD program, Eastern Virginia Medical School

Rebecca Miles (MA, ‘94): technical position at Eli Lilly

Cleve Sinor (MA, ‘94): MD program, Virginia Commonwealth University